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Black holes can be electromagnetically charged, or carry vector charge from new fundamental fields. Their response to small fluctuations is of paramount importance to study gravitational wave generation. However, the usual even and odd…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-25 David Pereñiguez

We analyze the weak-field limit of General Relativity with matter and its possible quantisations. This analysis aims towards a predictive quantum theory to provide a first-principles description of gravitational effects in macroscopic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-11 Charis Anastopoulos , Mihalis Lagouvardos , Konstantina Savvidou

We discuss the problem of canonical quantization of electromagnetic field in the Schwarzschild spacetime. It is shown that a consistent procedure of canonical quantization of the field can be carried out without taking into account the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-25 Vadim Egorov , Mikhail Smolyakov , Igor Volobuev

We set up a model of an electric charge where the noninvertible metric phase of first order gravity supercedes the point charge singularity in a curved spacetime. A topological interpretation of the electric charge is provided in terms of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-01 Suvikranth Gera , Sandipan Sengupta

Quantum Mechanics of photons leads to a theory of Quantum Gravity that nicely matches the experimental results of varying fine structure constant,obtained from many-multiplet Quaser absorption systems and atomic clocks.The variation of that…

General Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Pradip Kumar Chatterjee

It is the goal of this article to extend the notion of quantization from the standard interpretation focused on non-commuting observables defined starting from classical analogues, to the topological equivalents defined in terms of…

General Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Andrei T. Patrascu

We develop a theory on a topologically non-trivial manifold which leads to different vacuum backgrounds at the field level. The different colors of the same quark flavor live in different backgrounds generated by the action of the torsion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Minguzzi , C. Tejero Prieto

We systematically include central charges into supersymmetric quantum mechanics formulated on curved Euclidean spaces, and explain how the background geometry manifests itself on states of the theory. In particular, we show in detail how,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Faux , David Kagan , Donald Spector

We introduce topological gauge fields as nontrivial field configurations enforced by topological currents. These fields crucially determine the form of statistical gauge fields that couple to matter and transmute their statistics. We…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-01-04 Gerard Valentí-Rojas , Aneirin J. Baker , Alessio Celi , Patrik Öhberg

A simple algebraic model for charged particle moving in two dimensional space under influence of singular magnetic field is given. The fundamental assumption for the model is that every charged particle coupled to the magnetic field is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Wladyslaw Marcinek

In a nonlinear theory, such as General Relativity, linearized field equations around an exact solution are necessary but not sufficient conditions for linearized solutions. Therefore, the linearized field equations can have some solutions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-05 Emel Altas , Bayram Tekin

We argue that the conventional construction for quantum fields in curved spacetime has a grave drawback: It involves an uncountable set of physical field systems which are nonequivalent with respect to the Bogolubov transformations, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir S. Mashkevich

We describe space--time fluctuations by means of small fluctuations of the metric on a given background metric. From a minimally coupled Klein--Gordon equation we obtain within a weak-field approximation up to second order and an averaging…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ertan Göklü , Claus Lämmerzahl

The existence of a minimum time uncertainty is usually argued to be a consequence of the combination of quantum mechanics and general relativity. Most of the studies that point to this result are nonetheless based on perturbative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Pablo Galan , Guillermo A. Mena Marugan

Using gauge/gravity duality, we deduce several nontrivial consequences of quantum gravity from simple properties of the dual field theory. These include: (1) a version of cosmic censorship, (2) restrictions on evolution through black hole…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-26 Netta Engelhardt , Gary T. Horowitz

Using tangent bundle geometry we construct an equivalent reformulation of classical field theory on flat spacetimes which simultaneously encodes the perspectives of multiple observers. Its generalization to curved spacetimes realizes a new…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-13 Mattias N. R. Wohlfarth

An alternative method to the topological instanton solution for deriving an expression for the topological charge is presented. This alternative method involves the use of relativistic quantum field theory and covariant electrodynamics. In…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joseph Saaty

The low-energy approach to electric charge quantization predicts physics beyond the minimal standard model. A model-independent approach via effective Lagrangians is used examine the possible new physics, which may manifest itself…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 H. Lew , R. R. Volkas

In quantum gauge theories, anomaly cancellation severely restricts the allowed patterns of chiral charges. Here we show that, in a phenomenologically motivated framework for light minicharged particles, the anomaly cancellation conditions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-02 Junseok Lee , Fuminobu Takahashi , Yu-Dai Tsai

Canonical quantization is often used to suggest new effects in quantum gravity, in the dynamics as well as the structure of space-time. Usually, possible phenomena are first seen in a modified version of the classical dynamics, for instance…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-12 Martin Bojowald , Suddhasattwa Brahma , Dong-han Yeom